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Koethi Zan’s The Never List Adapted for Television

By bicadmin | Published: October 23, 2013

Koethi Zan’s international best-seller The Never List – a fast-paced novel about four kidnapped girls – will be adapted for television by CBS. Author-screenwriter AM Holmes (The End of Alice, The L Word) will pen the script, with Koethi Zan herself on board as a supervising producer. Koethi Zan, a former senior VP and deputy general counsel at MTV, found the inspiration for the book in the stories of captivity survivors: “These women have suffered through the absolute worst thing I can imagine and every one of them has demonstrated incredible strength in the wake of such trauma.”

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Forrest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground featured in Parade

By bicadmin | Published: October 18, 2013

Do family farms still matter? That’s the question taken up by ParadeI this week in their feature of Forest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm. Forrest Pritchard recounts his experiences on his own family farm, Smith Meadows, and how after seventeen years of both triumph and heartbreak, his business is stronger than ever. Even so, Forrest Pritchard reminds us that high-yield industrial agriculture still dominates the field. Only 1% of the country still lives on a farm, as opposed to 50% just two generation ago. Forrest Pritchard urges Americans to ask what they value about their food, and where it comes from, with hope that a new wave of farmers dedicated to sustainable agriculture can give us all better choices at the grocery store.

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Lopez Island Library Welcomes Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

By bicadmin | Published: October 14, 2013

Karen Joy Fowler at the Lopez Island Library

The Lopez Island Library caught a rare opportunity to host New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler earlier this month.

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Richardson Reads Draws Almost 1,500 Participants, Best Program in 10 Year History!

By bicadmin | Published: October 9, 2013

Richardson Texas packed the house last month for a visit from Markus Zukas, international bestselling author of The Book Thief. With almost 1,500 participants over three events, the Richardson Reads event as universally acknowledged by the event organizers as the best program in its 10 year history!

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Welcome to Margot Mifflin, author of The Blue Tattoo

By bicadmin | Published: October 3, 2013

Author, journalist, and professor: Margot Mifflin’s stories and interests take her into the realm of taboo and outsiders as she explores the stories of women and the tattoos they wear.

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Welcome Jo Robinson, Author of Eating on the Wild Side

By bicadmin | Published: September 25, 2013

Jo Robinson is a bestselling, investigative journalist who has spent the past 15 years scouring research journals for information on how we can restore vital nutrients to our fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy products. Her new book, Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, extends her expertise to reclaiming the lost nutrients of fruits and vegetables. The book has received stellar reviews and has been featured in Bon Appetit, Prevention, Health, Fitness, Epicurious, Oprah’s “O”, Mother Earth News, and Redbook. Jo has also appeared on several national television programs.

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Biographies vs. Beach Books: Trends in All Campus Reads Selections

By bicadmin | Published: September 19, 2013

In the last decade, common reading programs have become a mainstay for library programming, literary organizations, and college campuses. The rise in First Year Experience, Freshman Reads, and All Campus Reads programs seems to correspond to the decline of core curricula in higher education — as colleges distance themselves from core curricula they find that students still need to have something in common academically. Books in common type programs on campuses have been a convenient answer to that need.

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Featured Venue: A Conversation with West Kentucky Reads!

By bicadmin | Published: September 19, 2013

Gail Robinson Butler, the coordinator for the One Book, One Campus, One Community program at West Kentucky Community and Technical College was gracious enough to offer these thoughts on her experience as an All Campus Reads organizer. Thanks Gail!

BIC: Any idea about how many campus literary events you’ve done over the years?

GRB: Over the years, WKCTC has conducted many campus literary events spanning various departments and divisions, including the library and the English Department. Those events are numerous and exciting. Many Kentucky and regional authors, such as Silas House and Bobbie Ann Mason, were brought to campus. Seven years ago, we decided to add to our literary offerings and produce a One Book, One Campus, One Community Read every other year. WKCTC has involved numerous community partners in both the planning and production of the event, including the Paducah-McCracken County Library, Paducah Public Schools, McCracken County Public Schools, McNet Library Network and more. On alternate years we produce a Campus Read, targeting English 101 students. New York Times best-selling authors David Baldacci, Jeannette Walls, Homer Hickam and Garth Stein have visited Paducah as a result of the reads.

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